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The Animal Kingdom
A squirrel has the capacity / To reclaim nuts from memory. / But they can't make
@francie-lynch
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BDSM is just Buddhism without vowels
*we are hyper-etymological so be aware / that tricksters and fools are up to no good / and sex between equals is very rare
@ganesha-michael-shapiro
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My Jeremiad
I am keening / In lament / bewailed at this notion.
@alexis-j-meighan
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Pixie
I want to be a pixie / Not a fairy, / Pixies are sensual
@lone-wolf
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My Jeremiad
I am keening / In lament / bewailed at this notion.
@alexis-j-meighan
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The Witch
The Witch / Blessed be! the witch inside, / Look into your minds eye.
@kelly-ohara
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Her Woes Are Countless
Morning sun splashes / molten gold over ripe wheat fields, / Spellbound, stands a village lass,
@k-balachandran
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Coded meta-messages
In the beginning / there is a class / of creatures we call Gods
@jojo-nguyen
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A Surreal Portrait of Us Walking Around a Park at Night
She once was a funky unicorn-- / we both midnight animals, / occasionally I'm a sufi moon baboon!
@brycical
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the trickster
To the wicked widow that sucks the life out of her mate / To the tiny little fellow that crawls through my window and greets me with a goodnight kiss / To the brown girl with long legs that's sitting in my driveway
@Sageshortcake
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Matrices
Through the messy, dis-shaped contours / of pained reflections / the light — disarrayed, distorted —
@malachi-filius
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Human Freight
Cosmos’ in line / Trying times are hanging up / Harrowing efforts
@emanuel-martinez
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Did Pinocchio's Nose Grow When He Lied To Himself?
Once, I looked into your eyes and I saw arrogance, a layer coating sincerity. / Twice, I looked into your eyes and I saw fear and strength waging war. / Thrice, I looked into your eyes and I saw a desire to repair the broken.
@WickedHope
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wherever you are / I hope / you're warm
@rosieinthecity
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The Herbal Path
Mints, Sages and Dill greet me / as I trample along the way / Stones hide under my toes
@cheryl-love
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The House Of Dust: Part 03: 09: Cabaret
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence. / You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing / As other nights when we are dead will pass . . .'
Conrad Aiken
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tricksters receive but don't give
we torture ourselves / and our hurting hearts / to keep bullshit friends
@sinderella
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Ugly and Dim
In a land where only rich folk have chins; lived a man. Ugly and Dim. He was as bright as a flashlight in the afternoon hours. A terrible thing, having thoughts devoured. A drought crossed the land where Ideas once grew now lies a place for neither me nor you. We heard of boy. Quiet wealthy, quiet rich, but deep down a real sonofabitch, who rode ‘gainst the grain and then disappeared. Never to be heard of again. What a shame to lose the lose the mind of young Ugly and Dim. / I heard a tall tale, or call it a fable; for the lessons quite clear. / It’s a lesson about Ugly and Dim, two brothers in fact who had such an act at the travelling magical show. Dim had the knowledge and Ugly had the looks.
@joe-milton
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An Aria
There's a girl bopping her head to the music, / A boy wanderin' 'round with a guitar / Who don't know how to use it.
@Redshift
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upon discovery of the rock
a cairn on every mountain / chronological tricksters stacked / by near naked natives, or frat brothers
@spysgrandson
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Heaven (to some)
Listen up barflies, tricksters and drunks, / People’s lives wasted with heads down the dunk; / What if there really is a land for you and me,
@h-w-erellson
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Animal Story
In the beginning / crows were / as white as snow.
@jeff-stier
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